February 27 - March 3

 

Puppetry Residency 

Over the last two weeks students have been hard at work in our puppetry residency.  Students have enjoyed creating shadow puppets and coming up with stories during the residency.

We have also started to create som "crankies" as a form of storytelling.  These simple machines tell a story through sequenced drawings made by students.

  Thank you so much for the volunteers who have been coming to help out.

Pre-Service Teacher

I'd like to take a moment to introduce you to Ms. Kehoe.  Ms. Kehoe is a student at St. Mary's University who is working towards finishing her education degree so she can become a teacher.  She is with our class daily until mid-April.

This week she designed a lesson for students to make 'structures' (house, barn, and garages) using toothpicks and marshmallows.

Literacy

This past week we worked on learning the different sounds represented by the -ed ending.  Students learned that it can sound like a /d/, /t/, or schwa /d/.  -ed sounds like a /t/ when it is added to a word where the last sound is unvoiced (ex. sniff).  It sounds like schwa /d/ on words that end with d or t (ex. land or shift).  All other words have a /d/ sound at the end.

High Frequency Words:

their, there, do, how, other, about, can, said, there, each, which

Reminders

Wednesday, March 8

 - Student Learning Assembly at 9:30am

- Library Book Exchange

Thursday, March 9

- Parent Teacher Conferences 4pm to 7pm.  Book through MyCBE

Friday, March 10

- Parent Teacher Conferences 8:30am to 12:30pm.  Book through MyCBE

- NO SCHOOL for STUDENTS